Planning accuracy measures how close a job plan's estimates were to what the job actually took.
Planning accuracy is estimate versus actual: how close your planned hours come to what the job really took. Enter your totals to see the aggregate variance, then enter your work-order-level numbers to expose what the aggregate hides. The two often tell opposite stories.
How well estimated labor, hours, or cost matched the actuals on completed work.
Compare estimated to actual hours or cost and express the variance as a percentage.
Bad estimates break scheduling, frustrate crews, and undermine trust in the plan.
Estimates within about 10 percent of actuals is a reasonable goal for mature planning.